Not that this is what Game Stop is working on, but what about a controller that wraps around the tablet while you're using it? Kind of like a skin that adds shoulder buttons on the sides and perhaps a D-pad on buttons on the bottom? I think this would be interesting to try with a tablet.
I never owned one (I was only a kid) but I recall the advertisements and articles for this camera. It was an enormous step up from the existing instant camera technology with the layers you had to peel off the picture and the chemicals (fixers?) you needed to apply.
The camera body was also a miracle of engineering design because of the way it could fold flat for storage, but pop open in just the right manner for all the optical paths to work (including the SLR aspect).
Much later I owned a Kodak instant camera during their brief foray into instant film, before Polaroid's arsenal of patents (from the SX-70 I guess) did them in.
You know, for things like Simulations? Seems you could hopefully get many answers from the computer without the need for 20 sq. mi of "hardware", and then confirm the results with more limited real-world tests.
Observation 2: This sounds like a money-grab more than anything else.
Observation 3: China has ghost cities already. Perhaps we could use one of theirs.
I'm surprised that this kind of thing would happen, because as far as understand it there's no such thing as a 'Groupon Night'. You may only have a couple days to -buy- the Groupon, but once you have it, you usually have weeks or months to use it. Why would all the Groupon people show up at once?
Unless, perhaps, that particular restaurant -chose- to make their Groupon so specific, in which case it sounds like it's their own fault they got hammered.
I know, hence the word 'trolling'. Wikipedia and Census Bureau not withstanding, I still don't consider Pennsylvania to belong. I'll accept NJ and NY begrudgingly.
Bob and Gloria both did damage but somehow in my mind I don't think of them as massive hurricanes because they didn't do much damage where -I- was at the time. In fact I seem to recall there was an unnamed 'storm after Bob' that caused more damage to some communities than Bob did.
He mentioned New England specifically, not just the whole Northeast. Agnes did damage in Pennsylvania, not up here. We haven't been hit by anything all that serious since at least Hurricane Carol (1954):
BTW: As far as I am concerned no hurricane in my entire lifetime has had a major impact on the 'Northeast' (i.e. the 6 New England states). This trolling guy from Massachusetts says Pennsylvania is about as much 'Northeast' as Westchester County is 'Upstate New York'. Pennsylvania and anything south is at best 'Mid-Atlantic'.
Thanks for the info! I'll have to follow up on what comes along with the A500 as well as the Viewsonic gTablet mentioned above. One thing I see mentioned in the reviews for the A500 is that it doesn't support Netflix yet, and the gTablet seems to require a mod. I'd really like to see the tablets reaching the point of running Netflix out of the box, as it would probably be one of my major uses of the device.
What Android tablet of the size of a TouchPad costs $300? With a capacitive screen? Dual core CPU? Not being sarcastic, please point me to one and I'll check it's specs. Every $300 tablet I've heard of has been a disappointment.
In the picture I draw in my head, the 'diamond of death' isn't really closed at the bottom in the cases you describe. However, just because that base class obeys all the rules today, who says it still will tomorrow when the next programmer gets their hands on it? "What do you mean I wasn't supposed to use a data member there? It compiled didn't it?"
I didn't shell out over $2K for a 59" plasma HD tv (and I have a sound system to back up the great image) to just watch substandard source material on.
Well there you go. I -didn't' shell out $2K for a 59" plasma HD tv. My TV is 32" LCD, only 780p. No sound system, just the TV speakers.
The big win for streaming for me and my kids is that I get to decide what I want to watch -right now-, not two days from now when I can get turnaround of my latest DVD from Netflix. Yes, it's mostly back catalog, but so what: it's not like I've already seen every movie ever made. There are dozens of flicks from the past 5 years I still haven't seen. And my daughter is gobbling up the tween-age series available like she's never had TV before.
I'll be dropping the DVD subscription when the price goes up. For the occasional desire to see a recent release, I'll go Redbox.
That's where it helps (but doesn't entirely solve the problem), that we're talking about private companies doing most of these projects. Of course, they still need lots of contracts from the government or they will have trouble with funding, but at least their direction and priorities aren't being yanked around every two years.
Take a project that is going well so far (as Dragon apparently is). If the US gov't doesn't throw enough money their way, perhaps another government or consortium of governments might?
They need the private key to detect that the innocent looking request contains steganographically hidden data. So, perhaps you're not missing that much at all.
It's not that it's different in the eyes of the consumer. It's different in the eyes of the studios. The Studio's let Netflix get the DVDs sooner then they allow streaming, but once Netflix has the DVDs they can rent them out over and over forever (AFAIK). Streaming is subject to licensing, is forced to come -after- the initial DVD window to protect the studio's DVD sales, and can be revoked when the licensing contract expires.
Let me add one more anecdotal voice to note that the CFLs I've bought have had an incredible life so far, except for one particular set I bought 10 years ago that was utter crap. On the other hand the Sylvania OSRAM bulbs I bought in the mid 90's when the electric company was subsidizing them for early adopters, were just excellent. It took at least 6 years of daily use, maybe even more before those started to fail. They moved with my twice to different locations.
By the way, my current apartment has CFLs in every light fixture that will accept them. None on dimmers. I wish I could get a CFL to fit into the task-lighting space underneath my microwave oven, because that one incandescent generates a ton of heat in my kitchen.
After that, it registers one ContentObserver to monitor incoming SMS messages. Inside the ContentObserver, it will delete any SMS message if it starts with the number "10." Note that the numbers such as 10086/10010 represent legitimate mobile phone service providers in China and are typically used to notify users about the services they are ordering and the information of users' current balance of their mobile phone accounts.
.. is why is there an API that allows an app to delete incoming SMS messages ???
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A prof. at my alma mater has been trying to do this for 25 years: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leik_Myrabo
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Not that this is what Game Stop is working on, but what about a controller that wraps around the tablet while you're using it? Kind of like a skin that adds shoulder buttons on the sides and perhaps a D-pad on buttons on the bottom? I think this would be interesting to try with a tablet.
I never owned one (I was only a kid) but I recall the advertisements and articles for this camera. It was an enormous step up from the existing instant camera technology with the layers you had to peel off the picture and the chemicals (fixers?) you needed to apply.
The camera body was also a miracle of engineering design because of the way it could fold flat for storage, but pop open in just the right manner for all the optical paths to work (including the SLR aspect).
Much later I owned a Kodak instant camera during their brief foray into instant film, before Polaroid's arsenal of patents (from the SX-70 I guess) did them in.
Geesh!
You know, for things like Simulations? Seems you could hopefully get many answers from the computer without the need for 20 sq. mi of "hardware", and then confirm the results with more limited real-world tests.
Observation 2: This sounds like a money-grab more than anything else.
Observation 3: China has ghost cities already. Perhaps we could use one of theirs.
That makes sense. No avoiding that I guess.
I'm surprised that this kind of thing would happen, because as far as understand it there's no such thing as a 'Groupon Night'. You may only have a couple days to -buy- the Groupon, but once you have it, you usually have weeks or months to use it. Why would all the Groupon people show up at once?
Unless, perhaps, that particular restaurant -chose- to make their Groupon so specific, in which case it sounds like it's their own fault they got hammered.
I know, hence the word 'trolling'. Wikipedia and Census Bureau not withstanding, I still don't consider Pennsylvania to belong. I'll accept NJ and NY begrudgingly.
Bob and Gloria both did damage but somehow in my mind I don't think of them as massive hurricanes because they didn't do much damage where -I- was at the time. In fact I seem to recall there was an unnamed 'storm after Bob' that caused more damage to some communities than Bob did.
He mentioned New England specifically, not just the whole Northeast. Agnes did damage in Pennsylvania, not up here. We haven't been hit by anything all that serious since at least Hurricane Carol (1954):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Carol
BTW: As far as I am concerned no hurricane in my entire lifetime has had a major impact on the 'Northeast' (i.e. the 6 New England states). This trolling guy from Massachusetts says Pennsylvania is about as much 'Northeast' as Westchester County is 'Upstate New York'. Pennsylvania and anything south is at best 'Mid-Atlantic'.
Thanks for the info! I'll have to follow up on what comes along with the A500 as well as the Viewsonic gTablet mentioned above. One thing I see mentioned in the reviews for the A500 is that it doesn't support Netflix yet, and the gTablet seems to require a mod. I'd really like to see the tablets reaching the point of running Netflix out of the box, as it would probably be one of my major uses of the device.
What Android tablet of the size of a TouchPad costs $300? With a capacitive screen? Dual core CPU? Not being sarcastic, please point me to one and I'll check it's specs. Every $300 tablet I've heard of has been a disappointment.
I know my headphone plug must be rotated incorrectly, because the WHOOSH I'm hearing in this thread is almost deafening.
In the picture I draw in my head, the 'diamond of death' isn't really closed at the bottom in the cases you describe. However, just because that base class obeys all the rules today, who says it still will tomorrow when the next programmer gets their hands on it? "What do you mean I wasn't supposed to use a data member there? It compiled didn't it?"
You could make 50 accounts *ducks*
I didn't shell out over $2K for a 59" plasma HD tv (and I have a sound system to back up the great image) to just watch substandard source material on.
Well there you go. I -didn't' shell out $2K for a 59" plasma HD tv. My TV is 32" LCD, only 780p. No sound system, just the TV speakers.
The big win for streaming for me and my kids is that I get to decide what I want to watch -right now-, not two days from now when I can get turnaround of my latest DVD from Netflix. Yes, it's mostly back catalog, but so what: it's not like I've already seen every movie ever made. There are dozens of flicks from the past 5 years I still haven't seen. And my daughter is gobbling up the tween-age series available like she's never had TV before.
I'll be dropping the DVD subscription when the price goes up. For the occasional desire to see a recent release, I'll go Redbox.
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No, you're thinking of the movie where Kevin Spacey plays this guy who may or may not be an alien.
That's where it helps (but doesn't entirely solve the problem), that we're talking about private companies doing most of these projects. Of course, they still need lots of contracts from the government or they will have trouble with funding, but at least their direction and priorities aren't being yanked around every two years.
Take a project that is going well so far (as Dragon apparently is). If the US gov't doesn't throw enough money their way, perhaps another government or consortium of governments might?
They need the private key to detect that the innocent looking request contains steganographically hidden data. So, perhaps you're not missing that much at all.
It's not that it's different in the eyes of the consumer. It's different in the eyes of the studios. The Studio's let Netflix get the DVDs sooner then they allow streaming, but once Netflix has the DVDs they can rent them out over and over forever (AFAIK). Streaming is subject to licensing, is forced to come -after- the initial DVD window to protect the studio's DVD sales, and can be revoked when the licensing contract expires.
Let me add one more anecdotal voice to note that the CFLs I've bought have had an incredible life so far, except for one particular set I bought 10 years ago that was utter crap. On the other hand the Sylvania OSRAM bulbs I bought in the mid 90's when the electric company was subsidizing them for early adopters, were just excellent. It took at least 6 years of daily use, maybe even more before those started to fail. They moved with my twice to different locations.
By the way, my current apartment has CFLs in every light fixture that will accept them. None on dimmers. I wish I could get a CFL to fit into the task-lighting space underneath my microwave oven, because that one incandescent generates a ton of heat in my kitchen.
After that, it registers one ContentObserver to monitor incoming SMS messages. Inside the ContentObserver, it will delete any SMS message if it starts with the number "10." Note that the numbers such as 10086/10010 represent legitimate mobile phone service providers in China and are typically used to notify users about the services they are ordering and the information of users' current balance of their mobile phone accounts.
Unfortunately it only does Cosmic Sands.